Hyland Connect

Media Viewers 2.6 Released

Hot on the heels of the Alfresco Enterprise 4.2 release this week, the Share Extras team have been busy pushing out an updated version of the Media Viewers add-on, which provides support for viewing documents, audio, video and code directly within th...

Spring Surf Development #2 - Secure your Spring WebScript REST API

..In the previous blog post we added a WebScript that listed the different safaris offered by the Safari company. Definitively no company secret in other words. But what if we want to add a WebScript that lists internal company information in a manag...

Whats New in RM 2.1? (Part 2)

Automated Record DeclarationCollecting records within an Enterprise can be a challenging problem for a records management team.  They often have to rely on users understanding the details of their records management policy and how that applies to the...

What's new in RM 2.1? (Part 1)

In-Place Record DeclarationIn Alfresco Records Management Module v2.1 it is possible to declare any document as a record from within a share collaboration site.  The advantages of declaring records in-place include: The content authoring environment ...

Follow-up: Homebrew and Thumbnails on OS X

This post is a quick follow-up to my original article Homebrew: Share thumbnails and previews on OS X.Some additions to the imagemagick-transform.properties file were introduced as a bug-fix to 4.1.6 Enterprise Edition and subsequently 4.2.d Communit...

Homebrew: Share thumbnails and previews on OS X

As part of some recent testing for Alfresco Mobile 1.4 (1.4.1 is currently being reviewed by Apple), I noticed that my thumbnails and document previews had stopped working. All this probably coincided with an upgrade to OS X 10.8.2, JDK 7 and/or the ...

Real-time Social Collaboration In Alfresco

The Social Collaboration HypeWikipedia defines Social Collaboration as: '(it) refers to processes that help multiple people interact, share information to achieve any common goal. Such processes find their 'natural' environment on the Internet, where...

Alfresco Parents and Children

This post won’t tell you much new if you are already experienced in Alfresco but even then you might found something curious somewhere. So be warned that the audience for this post is mostly the Alfresco newbie that just started playing with this gre...

Enterprise Edition (Talk)

I18N (Talk)

Is there a way to internationalise spaces names ?The need is to share spaces amongst users of different languages.So, I would like to use a bundle reference as a name, say 'myBundle.DRAFTS_SPACE' that would translate according to definitions in the b...

Dynamic Share Configuration Through Extension Modules

Whilst preparing for a Tech Talk Live presentation on customizing Alfresco Share I realised that there was another extensibility capability that I’d not actually blogged about. This was a feature that had been requested internally and will be availab...

Alfresco Community 4.2.c

The latest Alfresco Community 4.2 release is out! Here's some information on what improved features you can expect since the last release.LightThemeThe latest Share user interface theme to be added to Alfresco and a preview of the newer more modern l...

Media Previews is dead, long live Media Viewers

A while ago I wrote about the newly-extensible Document Preview component in Alfresco Share and how you can use it to customize the out-of-the-box viewers and add your own custom implementations.I mentioned at the end of that post that there were som...

Main Page (Talk)

Testing Add-ons on 4.2

As we progress with testing Alfresco 4.2 in preparation for an upcoming Community release and Enterprise releases later this year, we have been looking at how we can preserve compatibility with the rich set of add-ons that our partners, customers and...

Under The Hood of the Surf Updates

IntroductionIn a previous post I described a simpler approach to constructing a page. This post will delve deeper into exactly what is happening to render that page, how the dependency analysis works and what ultimately ends up on the page.Page Rende...

Hazelcast Configuration

REDIRECT Hazelcast Configuration (v4.1+)

Scheduled Actions (Talk)

The examples shown all refer to a bean templateActionModelFactory but do not define it. The docs here show that the only known implementing class of TemplateActionModelFactory interface is FreeMarkerWithLuceneExtensionsModelFactory and the example sc...

How To Hide Content On An Existing Alfresco Share Page

IntroductionIn my last blog I introduced some of the new extensibility features that are now available in the latest Alfresco Community source code and will later appear in Alfresco Enterprise 4.0. I demonstrated how to create and deploy an extension...

Share Document Library Extensions in v4.0

You may have heard already about Share v4.0 (codenamed 'Swift') and the excellent work that has been done allowing the Surf components to be extended, customized and overridden. If you haven't, I highly recommend David Draper's blog for in-depth info...